VLADIMIR PUTIN
ARCHIVE OF THE OFFICIAL SITE
OF THE 2008-2012 PRIME MINISTER
OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
VLADIMIR PUTIN
ARCHIVE OF THE OFFICIAL SITE
OF THE 2008-2012 PRIME MINISTER
OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
VLADIMIR PUTIN
Since 2005 the plant has been part of GAZ Group, the biggest automobile holding company comprising four bus plants (PAZ, GolAZ, KAvZ, LiAZ), the Kanash auto unit plant, the Saransk dump truck plant, Yaroslavl plant for the production of fuel and diesel equipment, as well as Ural Automotive Plant, TvEks, Bryansky Arsenal, Chelyabinsk building and road machinery plant, Volga Caterpillar Tow Truck Plant and their subsidiary service, marketing and supply organisations.
The GAZ plant's share of the production of motor vehicles in Russia is as follows: 5% of cars, 55.6% of trucks and 47.9% of buses. The annual output is over 230,000 vehicles, of which 53.4% are trucks, 17.2% buses and 26.7% cars. The annual turnover is about 60 billion roubles.
The Gorky Automobile Plant (GAZ) is the traditional supplier of trucks for agriculture, all-wheel drive trucks for the army, light commercial GAZel and Sobol trucks for small and medium-sized businesses as well as medium-class Volga cars. It has launched the production of multi-purpose Tigr vehicles for the army and security forces. It is expanding the range of special-purpose vehicles: utilities and road vehicles, mobile car repair shops and laboratories, medical vehicles and armoured trucks, tanker and refuelling vehicles. Over the past 20 years the Gorky plant has exported about 250,000 vehicles of various models.
The enterprise has a far-flung dealership network, its products are supplied to the markets in Russia and the CIS countries and in 30 other countries of the world.
GAZ is the first Russian enterprise which has for over four years now used the production scheme accepted in the major automobile companies in the world. That has increased the daily output, improved quality, cut costs and the amount of uncompleted production.
The quality assurance system at GAZ has been certified according to national and international ISO-9002 standards. GAZ has a certificate of compliance with international standard ISO-9001:2000 in design and development, body-assembly production and sales of cars and trucks and buses.
In 2006-2007 GAZ won an open tender of the Federal Public Health and Social Development Agency for the production and supply of ambulance vehicles as part of the "Health" national project. Under the project, the plant has provided medical institutions in Russia with 12,120 ambulance vehicles worth 7.5 billion roubles. The plant delivers and provides after-sale service for medical vehicles in all Russian regions.
In 2006 GAZ Group signed an agreement with DaimlerChrysler on the purchase of the production assets of the Sterling Heights Automotive Plant (Michigan, US), where they produce Chrysler Sebring and Dodge Stratus, as well as licenses for their manufacture. That same year GAZ Group acquired the British company LDV Holdings, which produces modern light commercial Maxus vehicles. After tests, adaptation and certification Maxus will be imported from Britain, and in two years' time it will be produced in Nizhny Novgorod.
In 2007 the plant had the following investment projects underway: further modernisation and increase of light commercial trucks production, launching the production of new commercial Maxus vehicles at the plant, the production of the Volga car with a new interior and launching the production of the Volga with a DaimlerChrysler engine, assembly of a new line for DaimlerChrysler cars.
The plant employs 50,000 workers: the average wage in 2007 was 15,000 roubles a month.
